Method for signaling opaque user data
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSheau Ng, Kiran Mukesh Misra, Sachin G. Deshpande, Christopher Andrew Segall
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Abstract
A device may be configured to signal information using watermarks. A device may be configured to determine an identifier associated with an address of a resource associated with multimedia content and embed the identifier in a signal representing multimedia content. A device may be configured to receive a multimedia signal, parse an identifier associated with an address of a resource from the multimedia signal, generate a query including the identifier, and receive supplemental content in response to the query.
Claims4
A method for signaling opaque user data in a payload of a watermark message, the method comprising:
- determining a number of data fragments required for the information;
- signaling a syntax element identifying a message block type based on the number of data fragments required for the information;
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- signaling a syntax element indicating the length of the message block payload, wherein the number of bits of the syntax element indicating the length of the message block payload is based on the message block type.
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